Models as Tools: An Agentic Coordination Framework for Unified Multimodal Visual Tracking

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00847v1
• Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:58:09 GMT
• Title: Models as Tools: An Agentic Coordination Framework for Unified Multimodal Visual Tracking
• Abstract summary: ACTrack is an agentic coordination framework that treats heterogeneous models as invocable tools under an event-triggered mechanism.<n>We show that ACTrack substantially surpasses the strongest and the largest trackers on eight RGB benchmarks.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Most current visual trackers adopt a matching-based architecture trained exclusively on tracking datasets, whose performance gains depend heavily on the length of the input context, and have now reached a bottleneck. While high-performance tracking increasingly relies on foundation models, existing methods use them monolithically, adapting a foundation model into a tracker or modify a segmentation foundation model into a tracking pipeline, which fails to exploit complementary strengths. Matching-based trackers excel at instance-level correspondence but lack semantic discrimination and fine-grained foreground perception, whereas segmentation foundation models produce precise masks yet struggle with instance discrimination and multimodal extension. Both paradigms also lack error-correction capabilities for long-term tracking. To address these issues, we propose ACTrack, an agentic coordination framework that treats heterogeneous models as invocable tools under an event-triggered mechanism. ACTrack coordinates a Tracker-based Instance Matching Tool for target discrimination, a SAM3 Motion Tool for mask-derived motion priors, a SAM3 Perception Tool for detecting distractors and instance-conflict cues, and a VLM Reprompt Tool activated only under persistent conflict to mitigate error accumulation. We design a complete tool-invocation trigger mechanism and an inter-tool coordination mechanism, enabling the complementary strengths of different model tools to be fully integrated. Experiments show that ACTrack substantially surpasses the strongest and the largest trackers on eight RGB benchmarks. Furthermore, a parameter-efficient adaptation strategy enables parameter sharing and reuse across tools, achieving unified multimodal tracking with only 30\% trainable parameters while substantially outperforming prior methods on multimodal benchmarks such as LasHeR, VisEvent, TNL2K, and DepthTrack.

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